Tag: NHL
Just Who Is Evan Bouchard?
Updated:The Edmonton Oilers dipped into the OHL with their first round pick for the first time since 2015. That pick…
Read more »Oilers Training Camp Preview: Three People Under Pressure
Updated:Pressure, that’s the word of the year in Edmonton. The Oilers took a major step back last year and opened…
Read more »Oilers Training Camp Preview: Three Breakout Candidates
Updated:We continue our training camp preview here at The Oilers Rig today with a shift from three burning questions to three…
Read more »Oilers Training Camp Preview: Three Burning Questions
Updated:This is a vitally important season for the Edmonton Oilers. The current plan, and the men who put it into…
Read more »Oilers Sign Jason Garrison To PTO
The Edmonton Oilers are still dealing with the loss of Andrej Sekera to a torn Achilles tendon earlier this summer….
Read more »Oilers Sign Jakub Jerabek To One-Year Contract
In the wake of Andrej Sekera’s injury news six days ago, the Edmonton Oilers have added a defender to their…
Read more »Oilers Sign Scottie Upshall To PTO
The Edmonton Oilers have 13 forwards signed to contracts that we can essentially write-in on the NHL roster for opening…
Read more »The NHL Analytics Debate, My View
In North America, beyond church and sports, there has been a long tradition of discussing politics in shows like NBC’s…
Read more »Potential Replacements For Andrej Sekera
Updated:It’s been one day, the dust has settled and the time for anger and panic is gone. The situation is…
Read more »Oilers Lose Sekera To Torn Achilles
Updated:Andrej Sekera has not been able to catch a break since he suffered a torn ACL on a Friday night…
Read more »Oilers Will Play Seven Times On US National TV, HNIC Slate Revealed
Updated:NBC and NBCSN waited an extra few weeks before making their 2018-19 NHL broadcast schedule public. On Monday, Oiler fans…
Read more »It is Playoffs or Bust for the Iowa Wild in 2018-19
Updated:As pre-season play is in full swing for the National Football League, it marks the first hint that another hockey…
Read more »Happy B-Day Sid! Old videos of Crosby and Johnson chatting up teenage womenfolk
Updated:The captain turns thirty-one today and is about to embark on his fourteenth NHL season. Time flies. Sidney Crosby stopped…
Read more »PTO Options For The Oilers
Updated:We’re at that point of the summer where the talk shifts from free agent signings and trades to training camp…
Read more »Inside the money, Part 2: Comparing older defensemen by GAR and contracts
Updated:We were given a gift from the heavens last Friday. Capitals sign Tom Wilson. Six year contract, $5.17 million AAV….
Read more »It’s Time For The Oilers To Honor Ryan Smyth and Kevin Lowe
Updated:I have to admire the Edmonton Oilers for their rule about retiring numbers. No one wants to retire so many…
Read more »The Return of Our Let’s Read (Hockey) Videos…
Last summer we started producing a series of videos on YouTube called Let’s Read segments. The idea came from a…
Read more »Ten Bold Predictions For The Edmonton Oilers In 2018 Revisited
Updated:On New Year’s Day, I posted ten bold predictions for the Edmonton Oilers over the course of the calendar year….
Read more »What Should The Ideal NHL Jersey Look Like?
Updated:It’s time for some summer fun. We are firmly in the dog days of summer and news has crawled to…
Read more »Jason Zucker signs 5-Year, $27.5 million deal with the Minnesota Wild
Updated:A little over a week ago I posted an article about the Minnesota Wild signing restricted free agent defenseman Matt…
Read more »Post Vacation Oilers Thoughts
Updated:Two weeks on the beach was nice, but it’s time to get back to hockey and talking about the Edmonton…
Read more »Wild Re-Sign Matthew Dumba to 5-Year, $30 Million Deal
Updated:It is a scenario that plays out in just about every family at least at once. A family sits down…
Read more »Oilers Sign Evan Bouchard To Three-Year Deal
Greetings from vacation, as the Edmonton Oilers have made news for the first time since re-signing Ryan Strome about ten…
Read more »A Summer Circuit
As we all know in the hockey world this time of the year is when we unwind from hockey. The…
Read more »Inside the money, Part 1: Jack Johnson’s contract vs. future production
Updated:It’s been ten days since defenseman Jack Johnson signed with the Penguins for $16.25-million over the next 5 years. The…
Read more »Quantum Leap: Minnesota Wild Edition, 3 Moments in Team History We Would Change
Updated:[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjK9GJMBpt0&w=560&h=315] I hope you enjoyed that little trip down memory lane. Quantum Leap, the Don Bellisario-created action adventure drama that…
Read more »Oilers Re-Sign Ryan Strome For Two Years
The Oilers have locked up one of their two remaining RFA’s this morning by signing Ryan Strome to a two-year…
Read more »2018 Minnesota Wild Prospect Development Camp Announced, Camp Thoughts
Since the NHL Entry Draft, teams across the league have been calling in their prospects to be put through their…
Read more »Adding a 14th Forward, On Lance Bouma And More
Bob Stauffer had an interesting tweet last night that touched on the Edmonton Oilers adding a 14th forward. We should…
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